Professor Frink
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Professor John Frink is a fictional scientist and professor on The Simpsons.
Professor John Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist (voiced by Hank Azaria). His character is a mild parody of Jerry Lewis' character, The Nutty Professor. He has a trademark mannerism of using nonsense words when excited (and he's always excited). For example, when a meteor is approaching Springfield in a Paul Bunyan portray, he exclaims "That meteor is headed straight for us! With the fire, and the impact, and the hundred percent chance of PAIN! PAIN IN THE GLAYVIN!"
His laboratory phone number is 555-5782.
In a flashback, the viewer sees him lecturing at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, demonstrating the Frinkiac supercomputer and predicting that "within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them. M-huy."
He is fond of flubber, a fictional material with enhanced bounce properties originating in the movie The Absent Minded Professor. Professor Frink has basketball shoes made of flubber.
- Professor Frink, Professor Frink/He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think!/He likes to run, and then the thing/With the... person?
- Good morning ma'am, good afternoon Sir. It passed noon while I was speaking so that was technically correct.
- This is a 2d shape known as a square. But, what if we were to extend the shape beyond the two dimensions of our universe, along the hypothetical 'z' axis, thus forming a cube, or a Frinkahedron in honour of its creator. Gla Glaving Hey.
He is also the inventor of Hamburger Earmuffs. Using his famous method of combining two already existing inventions, he soon had a hot, marketable product on his hands. However, Homer Simpson attempted to steal this brilliant idea after failing to come up with an invention of his own. Frink was confident though, reassuring himself that "these babies'll already be on the shelves while he's still grappling with the pickle matrix!"
Frink never had a good relation with his father, played by Jerry Lewis. His mother said they were like "positrons and anti-neutrinos". The senior Professor Frink was a "he-man" scientist who, according to his son, worked on the atom bomb by day, slept with Marilyn Monroe by night, and sold secrets to the Russians at lunch. In the 14th Halloween Episode, Frink brought his father back to life, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kill the elder.
Frink has a wife, though in later episodes they may be separated or divorced, and a young son who is a chibi of the elder Frink.
In "Future-Drama", set eight years into Bart and Lisa's future, a bespectacled skeleton dressed in a lab coat is observed hanging on a rope from a rafter in Frink's basement laboratory--indicating the professor had committed suicide in the interim, and his passing had gone unnoticed by his family and friends.
A programming language/calculating tool called Frink has been named in honor of Frink [1] (http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/).